CME
Optimizing the Heart Failure Discharge Transition
This CME activity is intended for hospitalists, cardiologists, primary care providers, other physicians, and non-physician clinicians such as advance practice nurses specializing in the management of patients with heart failure.
Upon completion of this educational offering, participants will be able to:
- Employ a multidisciplinary approach to the care of patients with heart failure that begins at hospital admission and continues through all care transitions.
- Accurately and effectively reconcile medications across the care continuum.
- Recognize the value of initiating discharge planning early in the course of the hospitalization, including communication with outpatient clinicians.
- Recognize the importance of post-discharge follow-up.
- Effectively communicate with patients and families critical elements of successful self-management, especially in the post-discharge period.
- Identify specific issues that increase the risk of care transitions for patients with heart failure.
The case is worth 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
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Outstanding Scientific Achievement for Clinical Investigation Award Presentation and Lecture: Embracing Complexity: Overcoming Challenges to Improve Quality in Transitional Care
From the 2007 American Geriatric Society (AGS) Annual Meeting presented by Todd P. Semla, MA, PharmD, AGS and US Department of Veterans Affairs & Eric A. Coleman, MD, MPH, AGSF, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, the Outstanding Scientific Achievement for Clinical Investigation Award Presentation and Lecture: Embracing Complexity: Overcoming Challenges to Improve Quality in Transitional Care lecture is available as an online CME module worth .75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM . Upon completion of this activity participants will be able to describe effective approaches to improving quality and safety for older adults.
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